“It’s ridiculous to live 100 years and only be able to remember 30 million bytes. You know, less than a compact disc. The human condition is really becoming more obsolete every minute.” — Marvin Minsky (AI researcher)

“Programs must be written for people to read, and only incidentally for machines to execute.” — Abelson and Sussman

“If you think your users are idiots, only idiots will use it.” — Linus Torvalds,

“Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes.”— Edsger W. Dijkstra, inventor of many algorithms, advocate of formal verification and much more

“On two occasions I have been asked, ‘If you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?’ I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question.” — Charles Babbage, inventor of Victorian Computers

“I think computer viruses should count as life. I think it says something about human nature that the only form of life we have created so far is purely destructive. We’ve created life in our own image.” — Stephen Hawking, Physicist

“It’s OK to figure out murder mysteries, but you shouldn’t need to figure out code. You should be able to read it.” — Steve McConnell, Software Engineer

“In the future, computers may weigh no more than 1.5 tonnes.” — Popular mechanics, 1949

“That’s the thing about people who think they hate computers. What they really hate is lousy programmers.” — Larry Niven

“We crave for new sensations but soon become indifferent to them. Wonders of yesterday are today common occurrences.” — Nikola Tesla, inventor of AC electricity supply